Saija Simola

ORCID: 0000-0003-1819-1119
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Research Areas
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Persona Design and Applications
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Karlstad University
2023-2024

Aalto University
2023

The Nordic countries are, together with the United States, forerunners in online record access (ORA), which has now become widespread. importance of accessible and structured health data also been highlighted by policy makers internationally. To ensure full realization ORA’s potential short long term, there is a pressing need to study ORA from cross-disciplinary, clinical, humanistic, social sciences perspective that looks beyond strictly technical aspects. In this viewpoint paper, we...

10.2196/49084 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2024-04-25

Patient portals not only provide patients with access to electronic health records (EHRs) and other digital services, such as prescription renewals, but they can also improve patients' self-management, engagement care professionals (HCPs), processes. However, these benefits depend on willingness use patient and, ultimately, their experiences the usefulness ease of portals.

10.2196/45974 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023-02-07

Although many surveys have been conducted on patients accessing their own health records in recent years, there is a limited amount of nationwide cross-country data available patients' views and preferences. To address this gap, an international survey patient users was the Nordic eHealth project, NORDeHEALTH.We aimed to investigate sociodemographic characteristics experiences who accessed electronic (EHRs) through national portals Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia.A cross-sectional web-based...

10.2196/47573 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023-09-29

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Although many surveys have been conducted on patients accessing their own health records in recent years, there is a limited amount of nationwide cross-country data available patients’ views and preferences. To address this gap, an international survey patient users was the Nordic eHealth project, NORDeHEALTH. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We aimed to investigate sociodemographic characteristics experiences who accessed electronic (EHRs) through national...

10.2196/preprints.47573 preprint EN 2023-03-28

<sec> <title>UNSTRUCTURED</title> The Nordic countries are, together with the United States, forerunners in online record access (ORA), which has now become widespread. importance of accessible and structured health data also been highlighted by policy makers internationally. To ensure full realization ORA’s potential short long term, there is a pressing need to study ORA from cross-disciplinary, clinical, humanistic, social sciences perspective that looks beyond strictly technical aspects....

10.2196/preprints.49084 preprint EN 2023-05-17

Poor usability is a barrier to widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR). Providing good especially challenging in the care context, as there wide variety patient users. Usability benchmarking an approach for improving by evaluating and comparing strength weaknesses systems. The main purpose this study benchmark portals across countries. A mixed-methods survey was applied national offering access EHR Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden. These Nordic countries have similar public...

10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105302 article EN cc-by International Journal of Medical Informatics 2023-11-19

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Patient portals not only provide patients with access to electronic health records (EHRs) and other digital services, such as prescription renewals, but they can also improve patients’ self-management, engagement care professionals (HCPs), processes. However, these benefits depend on willingness use patient and, ultimately, their experiences the usefulness ease of portals. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aimed investigate perceived usability a...

10.2196/preprints.45974 preprint EN 2023-01-24
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